Richard Thomas Booth (July 13, 1918 – November 25, 1987) was an
American football player who played professional football in the
National Football League (NFL) for the
Detroit Lions
The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. The team play their home games at Ford ...
in 1941 and 1945.
Booth was born in
Newell, WV, before moving to
East Liverpool, OH
East Liverpool is a city in southeastern Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The population was 9,958 at the 2020 census. It lies along the Ohio River within the Upper Ohio Valley and borders Pennsylvania to the east and West Virginia to the ...
where he played high school football alongside his brother Bill, who would go on to play for the
Ohio State Buckeyes football team.
[THE EAST LIVERPOOL ONE HUNDRED http://www.eastliverpoolhistoricalsociety.org/el100.htm] Dick Booth played
college football
College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.
Unlike most ...
at
Western Reserve from 1938 to 1941, where he was instrumental in the
1941 Sun Bowl
The 1941 Sun Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Arizona State Bulldogs from Arizona State Teachers College at Tempe in Tempe, Arizona, and the Western Reserve Red Cats from Western Reserve University in Cleveland, known ...
victory against
Arizona State.
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1918 births
1987 deaths
American football running backs
Detroit Lions players
People from
Case Western Spartans football players
People from Hancock County, West Virginia
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